Re: [SG] trees

This is a thread that strikes close to home. I am an International Society of
Arboriculture Certified Arborist. The situations that Bill has described are
something I run into every day.
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Bill wrote:
    What would be the fate of those few seedlings anyway?  Most of
the tens of thousands of tree seedlings in each acre of established forests
are doomed to dwindle away or to be eaten by deer or rabbits.
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I agree with Bill. It still would be better to collect only seed from these
trees.
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Bill wrote:
In one case, an older couple was frightened by an unscrupulous "tree service"
that the trees would fall on the house in the next ice storm (already having
weathered without damage the two biggest ice storms in 20 years)
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It's a good thing the tree service wasn't selling swamp land in Florida, home
improvements, used cars, lotto tickets or web pages. It is a shame that so few
people appreciate trees. It is up to the individual to educate themselves so
their money is not spent foolishly. Have you ever tried to sell something to
someone that they didn't want to buy? Fraud is a whole different story. Are your
neighbors mentally competent? I sell tree work every day. We will not do abusive
pruning to trees, even if the customer insist. When someone wants a quote on
removing a perfectly healthy tree, I try to find out why. If they are
unjustifiably afraid of a tree I try to educate them and try to talk them out of
removing this tree. If they insist that they still want the tree removed, I give
them a price and if I get the work we remove the tree. I have successfully talk
myself out of a lot of work. I usually end up with a good tree care client
though.
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Bill wrote:
and in the other case, a young family who just bought the house didn't want to
rake up the fallen needles. They moved here from the north and have not yet
spent a summer on their (now) unshaded lot.
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I hope they roast. I run into this kind of person quite offen. Ignorant. They
move in from who knows where and hire someone to butcher their landscape. This
type usually has their mind made up and there is nothing that can be said to
sway them. I wish they would just stay where it is they came from and just send
money!
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Bill wrote:
Further down the street, new houses are being built on lots that have been
cleared of every trace of forest vegetation, including fine mature oaks and
hickories, and had their topsoil scraped off.
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Very sad indeed. Even when these large trees are left on the building lot all to
often the root systems are so damaged that these trees die in a few years. It is
very difficult for tree care companies to get into this loop before the damage
is done. Public education about trees is the only solution to this problem.
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It may look like I am disagreeing with Bill. I am not. I think we agree 100% on
trees, their beauty and their value. I just wanted to point out what may be some
behind the scene reasons for the way trees get treated.

Sometimes tree abuse does occur because of an "unscrupulous tree service".

If we all work toward raising peoples awareness about the real value of trees,
unscrupulous tree companies will find they have no work and no income!

I too am angry at what is happening to Bill's neighborhood.

Dan Nelson            (The rabid arborist and tree hugger)
Bridgeville DE
zone 7
SussexTreeInc@ce.net
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